Still no new license -- but draft text available
Paul Duffin
pduffin at hursley.ibm.com
Mon Aug 14 06:28:40 EDT 2000
Grant Griffin wrote:
>
> I'm a shareware seller like Rainer, and I think a lot of the problem of
> getting people to pay for shareware is not so much an "honesty" problem
> as a "getting off dead center" problem. In other words, many people are
> willing to pay a fair price for a good product (and most shareware is
> relatively cheap compared to comparable non-shareware products), but
> they somehow need to be motivated to actually take the action of going
> through the mechanics of making a purchase. I'd really like to publish
> my stuff in free/open form, but I've never been able to figure out a way
> to motivate even honest people to get off dead center to pay for it that
> way.
>
The easier it is to pay the less motivation that you need. If paying anyone
anywhere in the world was simply a matter of pressing a button then more
people would be prepared to pay.
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